The Public Knowledge Project at the University of British Columbia and
Simon Fraser University is pleased to announce that the first international
PKP conference will be held from July 11-13, 2007 in Vancouver. The
conference will provide opportunities for those involved in the
organization, promotion, and study of scholarly communication to share and
discuss innovative work in scholarly publishing, with a focus on the
contribution that open source publishing technologies (such as Open Journal
Systems) can make to improving access to research and scholarship on a
global and public scale. The conference will appeal to all those with an
interest in the future of scholarly publishing community: software
developers and technical support specialists; journal publishers, editors,
and staff; librarians; and researchers in scholarly publishing.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Abstract Deadline (required): January 15, 2007 Paper and PowerPoint
Submission (desired but not required for public
posting): July 1, 2007
This conference, which uses Open Conference Systems developed by the Public
Knowledge Project, enables participants to submit abstracts online at
http://ocs.sfu.ca/pkp2007/submit.php.

Call for Papers Announcement
The conference stream for those involved in the practices and study of
journal publishing will focus on the following themes and topics:
* Scholarly publishing in developing countries;
* Open access and the academy: reforming and opening the peer review
process, implications for academic freedom;
* New journals, new models: the how and why of starting a new journal, new
economic models for old journals, encouraging open data and related
practices;
* Promotion and growth: building readership, authorship, and reviewership;
open access is public access - challenges and benefits;
* Improving the features and design of publishing software

The conference stream for librarians and information specialists will focus
on the following themes and topics:
* The role of libraries in supporting and developing emerging or alternate
forms of scholarly communication, e.g., the library as publisher,
implications for collections budgets and policies;
* Incorporating and supporting open access publications as part of current
collections and related services;
* Using PKP software and related open source tools in libraries,
e.g., =93best practices=94 or case studies.

The conference stream for open source software developers and other
technical experts working with PKP software will address the following:
* Understanding and working with PKP software and its plug-in
architecture;
* Building a PKP developers -- community including software contributions and
collaborative projects;
* PKP software development priorities and plans.